Digital Entrepreneurial Internationalizers: Definitions, Theoretical Implications, and Research Avenues

dc.contributor.author Gabrielsson, Mika
dc.contributor.author Fraccastoro, Sara
dc.contributor.author Ojala, Arto
dc.contributor.author Rollins, Minna
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-24T20:03:38Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-24T20:03:38Z
dc.date.issued 2021-01-05
dc.description.abstract Recent research has advanced our understanding of digital entrepreneurship and how digitalization impacts on internationalization. However, we still lack a clear understanding of what constitutes a digital entrepreneurial internationalizer (DEI). This paper aims at filling this gap by bridging research on digital entrepreneurship and that on digital internationalization, and by augmenting their applicability to managerial phenomena. We do this by offering an improved definition and criteria to understand what constitutes a digital firm. Then, based on literature on digitalization, digital entrepreneurship, and international entrepreneurship, we conceptualize DEI according to the criteria of digital and internationalization earliness. That conceptualization means we can present a matrix, in which a new typology of the firm—the Born Global & Digital—emerges. We introduce examples of everyday successful business ventures that illustrate this and other types of DEIs. We then outline theoretical implications and future research avenues that could extend the conceptualization.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2021.617
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-4-0
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71235
dc.language.iso English
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject International Business and Born Digitals
dc.subject digital
dc.subject entrepreneurial
dc.subject international business
dc.subject born digitals
dc.title Digital Entrepreneurial Internationalizers: Definitions, Theoretical Implications, and Research Avenues
prism.startingpage 5069
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